Mi Pad 1 not starting how so ever. Please help!

Hi there,

I bought this MiPad about 4 months ago and it was all working properly till yesterday. And all of a sudden, I saw the fast boot screen showing up on the screen. I was clueless as why that screen was showing up without me doing anything. I didn't know what to do and pressed power button (maybe that was the mistake I did). Now the device is turned off and not turning on at all. I tried many ways to turn it on, but failed till now. I have tried -

- Holding the Power button for quite a while.
- Holding a combination of Volume buttons and Power button.
- Charging it overnight and trying the above two steps. (though connected to the charger, no notification lights showed up)
- When searching for solutions, came across this thread in some forum. Tried this as well, but no results. (http://forum.xda-developers.com/ ... ve-totally-t3417604)

When I connect and disconnect the device to my laptop through USB cable, I can hear the Windows beep sound, but does not detect it (I mean, it won't be displayed in either MiFlash, MiPCSuite tools or in the Windows file explorer).

If anybody has a solution for this, please help. Thanks.

Xperia Z3 compact, the most disappointing Sony phone I've ever used.

Hey guys, I just wanted to share my experience with this device with you.

So, I bought this phone in January and it was the most excellent phone I've ever used, fast processor, good camera, a nice community backing it up, good audio, you know the rest.
But it wasn't until, like, three or four months after that and I began to have troubles with it. I'll try to list them up:

1. While using it for reading before going to sleep, it would lock itself as if I pressed the power button (and no, it wasn't because of the screen timeout because I have a very high timeout and whenever it locked itself it made the locking sound it normally does when you press the lock button). I guess it has to do with the position I usually hold it when I'm on my bed and about to sleep.

2. Vibration motor issues, the phone used to stop vibrating at random times, I had to give it a shake to start vibrating again, how can you explain that? How is that even possible? God, I just can't understand what was wrong, but I learned to live with it

3. Video playblack issues, it stopped playing any kind of video at random times and I had to reboot it so it could do it. For example, YouTube showed that there was a problem loading the video, Instagram videos would glitch and go black, Snapchat videos won't play, you open the video and it exits as if it has finished, Album app says "Cannot play video", Facebook videos would just show the preview and the loading would remain at zero, and so on... However, this got fixed when I updated to Marshmallow but had to live with it for at least two months until MM released.

4. Audio jack issues (first issue), when I plugged my headphones everything was okay, but when I twisted the headphones plug it would stop playing the music (twist the headphone plug, obviously not disconnecting it; let's say that you have a sort of L shaped earphones plug, you are going to watch a YouTube video so you put your phone in landscape, you rotate the earphones plug so you can hold the phone in landscape properly, phone detects as it was disconnected and stops the video).

And, finally...

5. Audio jack issues (second issue), the headphones would disconnect no matter what I do, even the slightest movement would disconnect it, this frustrates me because I listen to music A LOT, and I couldn't do that on my phone anymore. When trying to disconnect and reconnect the headphones the audio jack cracked and the plastic frame of the phone got unglued, and now I have the chrome audio jack and the plastic frame in my hands because I can't glue it back because it won't fit again.

The last issue just happened a couple of hours ago.
I am so disappointed of this phone, just when I though I have found the perfect phone for me, guess I have to try again with another brand... (not to mention I have seen in a lot of forums that this phone has a lot of issues in terms of hardware and software).

What do you think? Have you had any problems like this? Do you think I have bad luck?
What do you think I should do now?
Leave the comments, I will read them.

Is one ever too old for a quality phone?

I hope not, because I just upgraded my 72 year old mother from a Nexus 5 to a OnePlus 3. :) Well, it's on the way.

I may not modify anything on the phone. However, I do have a question: Does OnePlus update their phones to the latest versions of Android often, regularly, or will she be lucky to see updates at all?

Thanks!

D855 stuck in ever lasting bootloop

So my mom's G3 started acting weird a couple weeks ago, it would randomly shut down but could be started without big problems. However yesterday it shut down and when we tried to restart it it became stuck in a bootloop. I've thought about hard reset but my mom has some pretty important stuff on it and prefers not to lose it. I've also thought about kdz flash but since I'm not sure about her phone's current firmware (i'm sure that it's lollipop, but I don't know which exact version) I can't do anything.

How can I solve this, or, at least, know which exact firmware is the phone running ?

By the way it's a 100% stock phone, no root no recovery, nothing.

Thanks in advance.